"There has been a change in mood in Pakistan today, where internal changes are shaping policies, mitigating old anxieties and India is no longer the principal enemy," Pakistan's former Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman said.
She, however, cautioned that years of "accumulated animosities" being reflected by media may endanger future of both the countries.
"...It is not while society says what we hear in conversations, reflected and refracted through media....Years of accumulating animosities, and that endanger our future more than anything else," Rehman, who was also Pakistan's ambassador to US, said.
"We bring too many conditions to our table...We must have them, its unrealistic to pretend otherwise...There has to be point where we talk about political will.
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"Pakistan is seeking to change this equation, at least for the last five years... That is continuing both at the level of society and the state. There also has been a fundamental course correction at the strategic and at the state level," she said.
"South Asian region is ripe with short, medium and long term tranformations...And there are opportunities if we can seek to imagine as the penultimate South Asian moment..Because there clearly is a moment...It is a question of whether we want to leverage it or miss it...
"And, both India and Pakistan have key roles to play in this transition. How South Asia can imagine its future as let me assure you that the rest of the world has stopped imagining South Asia," she said.